Agricultural geography and its role in international agricultural research centers: theoretical and scientific concerns

Kadhim, Zainab Kamel

doi:10.33899/berj.2022.173426

	Agricultural geography and its role in international agricultural research centers: theoretical and scientific concerns
College Of Basic Education Research Journal
Article 32, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2022, Pages 750-766 PDF (573.48 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.33899/berj.2022.173426
Author
Zainab Kamel Kadhim^*
University of AL-Mustansiriya-Collage of Education
Abstract
The CGIAR International Agricultural Research Centers constitute a system of interdisciplinary work on agricultural systems in the Third World that brings together the physical and social sciences. Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in agricultural geospatial research. This interest reflects the centers' growing interest in sustainable agriculture and agro-environmental mapping. It also proposes a rather narrow concept of geography. It addresses the potential origins of the limited representation of geography in these centers to date, and the context of this emerging interest. We argue that geographers bear a responsibility to extract The practical implications of their research We suggest that centers provide one way to do this. Potential contributions from the physical, biogeographical, cartographic and social fields to our discipline are considered, and the importance of teamwork bringing together these different disciplines is suggested. Particularly important, whether for applied agricultural research or the theoretical study of Third World agriculture, could be a critical development of the concept of 'sustainability'. Several thematic and conceptual building blocks are introduced for such a development.
Keywords
international agricultural research centers; agricultural modernization; sustainability; agro-ecological mapping

Statistics Article View: 253 PDF Download: 716